Improvement in boot-jacks



UNITED STATES HENRY CROCKER, OF BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOQT-JACKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,876, dated May :21,1872.

Specification describing certain Improve-- ments in Boot-Jacks, inventedby. HENRY GRocKER, of Brighton, Middlesex county, State ofMassachusetts.

The object of my invention is to construct and manufacture adjustableboot-jacks, which shall occupy a very small space, and thus especiallybe of great convenience to the traveling public. I

Figure I is a plan view of a boot-jack embodying my invention. Fig. IIis a stirrup or guard made of malleable cast-iron, brass, or othermetals. Into the eye a of the stirrup A is pivoted, by aid of the pin b,the brace B. In this brace is made a slot, 0, into which is introducedthe set-screw d, which is screwed into and carries the lip (J. Notches ee are cut into the lip 0, into which falls the projection f on the endof the brace B. A spring, D, fastened to the eye a of the stirrup A,serves to press down the brace B and the lip 0 into a position parallelor nearly so to the sides of the stirrup.

. of the set-screw d the lip can be extended or shortened to fit allsizes of boots.

Having thus fully described my invention, I desire to c1aim The stirrupA with the eye a, brace 13, slot 0, set-screw d, lip O, notches e e,projection f, and spring 1), substantially as and for the purposehereinbefore set forth.

HENRY CROOKER.

Witnesses:

ASA NYE, J r., EDW. O. SCATES.

